The characterization of tenable Pólya urns

Allison Davidson and Mark D. Ward

Statistics & Probability Letters, 2018, vol. 135, issue C, 38-43

Abstract: We characterize tenable Pólya urn schemes via a decomposition of their replacement matrices into small submatrices with certain conditions on the determinants. The characterization also involves an interplay between the submatrices and the initial conditions, as well as certain divisibility conditions.

Keywords: Random structure; Pólya urn; Determinant (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2017.11.013

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